Area and Perimeter of Rectangles Activity Pack

This is an Area and Perimeter Activity Pack designed with your 3rd grade students in mind.

Within this pack, students will have practice with word problems, decomposing, finding area and perimeter, and tasks to supplement the instruction of area and perimeter. For a short independent follow-up, use this area and perimeter worksheet with multi-step word problems.

This packet begins with a set of six word problems on a 1-page printable. The first problem is done for students, so they can see an example. Students will use the attached graph paper to help the solve the word problems. Students will find the area and perimeter for each problem. Answer key included.

The problems are as follows:

1)    Joey wanted a really big canvas for his art project. He found one that was 6 feet wide and 4 feet long! What was the area of Joey’s canvas? What was the perimeter?

2)    Abby’s library card fit perfectly in her pocket! Both were 3 inches wide and 3 inches tall. What were the areas of the card and pocket? What were the perimeters?

3)    Sylvia measured her classroom. The width of her classroom was 10 meters. The length was 12. What was the perimeter of her classroom? What was the area?

4)    The container Juan keeps his pet tarantula in measures 9 inches by 8 inches. What is the area of the container? What is the perimeter?

5)    The small field at the high school measured 25 yards long and 10 yards wide. What was the area of the field? What was the perimeter?

The next thing in the packet is a Decomposing Areas worksheet. Students will:

Look at the shapes shown on the graph paper. Draw lines to decompose them into squares or rectangles and write the areas of each new shape on the attached log before adding them up and writing the whole area of the shape. The first one is done for them.

The next worksheet is Decomposing Areas: Reversed. In this activity, students will:

Be given sets of area measurements. Their job is to make squares or rectangles that match these measurements in order to create a larger rectilinear shape. After creating the shapes, they will check to make sure the areas match.

There is an Area Worksheet and an Area and Perimeter worksheet in which they will find the correct measurements on the shapes. Answer keys are included for both.

Finally, there are 4 worksheets for Area and Perimeter Mini Tasks.

A 17 page printable PDF